Jeff Stephens

I'm really interested by the idea that the Thunder are, objectively, an All-Time team. Wins. Point Differential. Defense. Defense with Offensive Capability. Led by MVP. Depth. Coaching. Culture. Execution. But they do not feel like the all-time great teams *to me* and I do not know why. (Thunder fans, I get they fell like that to you and that people SHOULD view them that way. Read the first part again.) If you're not a Thunder fan, does OKC feel like an all-time great team on par with Warriors 2016, 2017, or say, Heat 2012 (who were objectively much worse than OKC), OKC 2014, 01 Lakers, etc? If not, why not?

I haven’t and won’t comment on the reporter/coach situation for a couple reasons. 1. Glass houses (IYKYK) 2. It’s not my business. What I will say is that my timeline has been inundated with it. There seems to be an epidemic of people gleefully celebrating other people’s downfalls, pains and misfortune. Sort of difficult to see how people can pretend to have moral high ground while reveling in the misery of others. I’ve been there, and I’ve made the jokes. Maybe it’s just me getting older, but there’s something repugnant about the schadenfreude. I’m not defending anybody or casting judgment. That’s their business and their family’s business. I’m just, I don’t know, maybe it’s the “old” in me, but I’m sort of disturbed by what seems like a phenomenon of bitchiness. The sort of sociopathy needed to even WANT to generate clicks off celebrating the awfulness in others’ personal lives is a darkness I just don’t possess. Are peoples lives so terrible that they need to pretend that rushing to the internet gleefully to monetize other people’s problems, make them better? It’s interesting to me how many people put forth a persona that they think that they’re better than that, and yet seem to indulge in it. How many ostensible fans of Ted Lasso shared the clips about not being judgmental, and then run to the internet to exemplify the opposite. Lest anyone try to pigeon hole this as some sort of self-serving whatever, I’m a horribly flawed human being, who has personally lived out some of his worst moments (plural) in the public spotlight. Make fun of me if you need to. But if you do, in your darkest hours, I hope they don’t play out publicly…and if somehow they do. I hope you are given the grace you couldn’t find in yourself to afford to others.

How the odds to land No. 1 overall would change, if NBA owners pass this lottery reform proposal next month: 1. 14% / 8% 2. 14% / 8% 3. 14% / 8% 4. 12.5% / 8% 5. 10.5% / 8% 6. 9% / 8% 7. 7.5% / 8% 8. 6% / 8% 9. 4.5% / 8% 10. 3% / 8% The mid-lottery teams get the biggest boost.

Hannity: I didn't know that it was legal to marry a first cousin. DeSantis: In a lot of states, it's not. Florida, needs to get with the program on that one. It's obviously part of cultures that are antithetical to American values.

You have got to be kidding. That's THREE home run robberies tonight against the Mariners, all from Jo Adell.

All THREE of Jo Adell's home run robberies from tonight ... Yes, you read that right 😮